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ANTH 3009 University of Colorado at Boulder Complexity of Ancient Art Discussion

 

“Rethinking Descriptions of Black Africans in Greek, Etruscan, and Roman Art” (https://blogs.getty.edu/iris/rethinking-descriptions-of-black-africans-in-greek-etruscan-and-roman-art/) in which they discuss changing the museum labels of their ancient artwork that depicts individuals from Africa. For this assignment, find an image of an artwork that depicts the ‘Other’ (from the perspective of the artistic tradition): non-Greeks, non-Romans, non-Egyptians, or non-Persians in an online museum catalog (like the Met, the Cleveland Museum of Art, or the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts; you could also look in Google Arts & Culture) and write a new label (1500 to 2000-words long) that explains to a general museum-going audience the complexities of ancient art and what this artifact tells us about the representation of the ancient world.